Donald Trump Jr. makes remarks during Turning Point USA conference at the Palm Beach County Convention Center Tuesday, December 19, 2017, where just over 3,000 conservative Millennials from around the country have descended on West Palm Beach for four-days. Photo: Damon Higgins/The Palm Beach Post

LOOK: Donald Jr. pumps up at local CrossFit gym

Before pumping up an audience of energetic conservative students at the Turning Point USA summit in West Palm Beach this week, Donald Trump Jr. dropped in for a workout at a local CrossFit gym.

Trump Jr., a longtime CrossFit athlete, dropped in for WODs (Workout of the Day) at CrossFit El Cid on Claremore Drive in West Palm Beach Monday and Tuesday. The gym, called a “box” in Crossfit parlance, is co-owned by Jay Dewing, an avid-Crossfitter and real estate broker in Palm Beach, who hunts quail with Trump and his brother Eric.

Trump Jr. is known for dropping in at CrossFit gyms when he travels. During recent visits to Palm Beach he often trained at the now defunct CrossFit Cityplace on Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach, where Dewing also trained.

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CrossFit El Cid, Dewing’s new gym, is in a warehouse several blocks away. To get there, Trump likely would have driven passed Emko, a restaurant and art gallery across the street, which now displays a huge banner for an upcoming exhibit, “Sh*t My President Says!” an artistic illustration of President Trump’s tweets.

Unlike his firebrand persona at rallies and on Twitter, Trump Jr. is an unassuming, quiet athlete who works hard but shuns the fellowship and camaraderie that is a hallmark of Crossfit.

He documents his training on Twitter and Instagram, where skeptics have questioned his self-reported athletic prowess. In an Instagram post on May 30, Trump reported his results for a grueling workout called “Murph” — done by CrossFit athletes throughout the country on Memorial Day weekend to honor fallen soldiers.

The workout, a 1-mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 squats and another one-mile run — all while wearing a 20-pound weight vest, is named after Lt. Michael P. Murphy, 29, of Patchogue, N.Y., who was killed in Afghanistan June 28, 2005.

Even though Trump did not wear a 20-pound weight vest, “the time is still admirable,” according to the article.

“Even more admirable is the 31:56 time he says is his personal record. If true, it would place him in the 95th percentile of participants, according to leaderboards.”

But in West Palm Beach this week Trump proved himself when he reportedly used a 70-pound kettle bell to do kettle bell swings. Of course, they were Russian swings — just to the shoulder — and not American over-the-head swings.